Originally Posted by Indy
Originally Posted by dgrauman
OK, so let me see what you think could be gained by using an SSD. 10 times faster? 100 times? Unless we are talking a couple of orders of magnitude improvement, I just see this as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

To give us an idea of where you are starting, what is the size of your II folder, at what number of entries in a given patient are you seeing significant slowness? 10 items? 50 items?

To answer your questions I'm willing to replicate your install in our environment with 15K spindles, then again on SSD just so that we have actual benchmarks.


ARRGHHH! I went to do some tests. We have an imported items file of just over 19 GB. I opened the II link to a patient with about 100 labs that last week had taken me well over a minute. Today it took 12 seconds. Of course, today is Sunday, and no one else is trying to do anything.

Maybe last week was a bad week. Maybe I forgot to do my periodic restart that seems necessary. Maybe it is network congestion. Maybe it is just doing the IPIO (Innate Perversity of Inanimate Objects) routine to suck me ever deeper into the illusion that this has all been a wonderful adventure and I am actually very happy with my medical information system. Whatever. I can't ask for help in fixing something that this afternoon ain't broke. Thank you for the generous offer.

David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands